Re: Subversion 1.5

Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>>> What are other's thoughts about shipping 1.5 soon?
>> One other thought: what about pinging users@ and getting a feel for what
>> some of the users want? I know that may be asking for trouble, but it
>> may give us a better idea about whether or not there is enough stuff in
>> trunk right now for people to justify an upgrade.

Good idea

>
> Our question to you is whether or not you, as users of Subversion, would
> like Subversion 1.5 now with the above features, or 1.5 in 6 months with
> these features plus merge tracking?

What's the extra cost of releasing 1.5 now and 1.6 in 6 months when
merge-tracking is ready? I mean, we have to inform people about the
consequences of releasing 1.5 now, so they can make an informed
decision, and we get a meaningful result out of it.

What I see as (negative) consequences:
- when 1.6 is released, we may have to stop maintaining 1.4
- 1.6 will be released later because of the overhead of releasing 1.5
(would be nice if we had an estimate on the delay)
- there is no *big* feature in the 1.5 release, so a lot of people will
skip it altogether